Word: substitutees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To help Premier Daladier get France "back to normalcy" as soon as possible, President Albert Lebrun and the Cabinet signed over to him decree powers running until Jan. 1, 1939. In democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers...
There is one good reason why ball-minded Harvard men will be cheering for the underdog this time, despite their stand in the last Civil War. It is not because the owner of Juicy Fruit and Spearmint was rich enough to buy a sore-armed Dizzy Dean; not because of...
Aside from a few bright glimpses of the children and constant troubles with the help, these reflections make up most of The Door of Life. Although the. squire bears a healthy son without too much trouble, there is such confusion downstairs -the cook leaves because she cannot stand childbirth, another...
The rest of the time, their substitute is alcohol. ("What is said about alcohol." begins a prologue, "comes mostly from people who stand in a Platonic relationship to narcotics.") As they pour out their bawdy yarns, their pasts of incest, arson, rape, miscellaneous sadism, the reader grudgingly admits a growing...
Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly...